Does anyone have one of the new Sandy Bridge processors and tried it with Dolphin? I'd love to know how well they work. I'm also interested in AVX and how that could speeds things up (once implemented). I'll probably be getting an i5 2500(K or no K) one of these days here. It seems like the perfect CPU for dolphin for how much it costs.

(01-13-2011, 03:01 AM)iluvdolphin Wrote: Does anyone have one of the new Sandy Bridge processors and tried it with Dolphin? I'd love to know how well they work. I'm also interested in AVX and how that could speeds things up (once implemented). I'll probably be getting an i5 2500(K or no K) one of these days here. It seems like the perfect CPU for dolphin for how much it costs.

i got a i7 2600k yesterday and it runs dolphin amazing, i'm still setting things up, i could deffinately reccommend it as i have it at 4.0 ghz stable without breaking a sweat.
get the k series as they are unlocked and easy to overclock.

(01-13-2011, 03:01 AM)iluvdolphin Wrote: Does anyone have one of the new Sandy Bridge processors and tried it with Dolphin? I'd love to know how well they work. I'm also interested in AVX and how that could speeds things up (once implemented). I'll probably be getting an i5 2500(K or no K) one of these days here. It seems like the perfect CPU for dolphin for how much it costs.

i got a i7 2600k yesterday and it runs dolphin amazing, i'm still setting things up, i could deffinately reccommend it as i have it at 4.0 ghz stable without breaking a sweat.
get the k series as they are unlocked and easy to overclock.

How does it run at stock? I wasn't planning on overclocking to be honest. I was thinking that with Turbo and the 10% or so increase clock per clock with older chips it'd be enough at stock? Also, I'm not sure if I want the P67 with 1600 DDR3 or H67 running 1333 DDR3. Does that make much of a difference with EFB to RAM?

i did not see any real difference between stock speed at 3.4ghz to 4.0ghz in dolphin as the games i have tried so far run at 60fps at stock speed anyway, i've not done much more testing yet as i've been wiping my harddrives and reinstalling everthing today.

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